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==Biography==
'''Félix Auger-Aliassime''' (born August 8, 2000 in Montréal, Québec, Canada) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of No.
Auger-Aliassime was born in Montréal but raised in L'Ancienne-Lorette, a suburb of Québec City. His father Sam Aliassime is from Togo and his mother Marie Auger from the province of Québec. He has an older sister Malika who also plays tennis. He started playing tennis at 4 and trained at the Club Avantage as a member of the Académie de Tennis Hérisset-Bordeleau in Québec City. In 2012, he won the Open Super 12, one of the most important U12 junior tournaments in the world. He was a member of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre in Montréal from 2014 to 2017. In 2015, he won the under-18 title at the Eddie Herr International Championships. Also in 2015, Auger-Aliassime and compatriots [[Denis Shapovalov]] and [[Benjamin Sigouin]] won the Junior Davis Cup title, the first time in history for Canada. At the junior event of the French Open in 2016, he reached his first Grand Slam singles final where he was defeated by Geoffrey Blancaneaux in three sets, despite holding a championship point. In 2019 at the Rio Open, he advanced to his first ATP final, becoming the youngest ever ATP 500 finalist, but was defeated by Laslo Đere. At the Miami Open also in 2019, he became the youngest men's singles semifinalist in the tournament's 35-year history and the first teenage semifinalist since Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic in 2007. He was also the first player born in or after 2000 to reach the semifinals at any ATP Tour Masters 1000 event.
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